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var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-6125049-7']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); There are any number of pressing media issues in the digital age -- we're sure you can come up with a handful without breaking a sweat. ONA Issues is your platform to define them, share them, explore them and get a better fix on how they impact the work you do. Here we'll look to you for your perspectives and conversations and help jump-start discussions by posting insightful reporting, commentary and analysis from anywhere and everywhere. We're here to listen and learn. Join us.

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“I do think a trustworthy press is mission critical for any democracy,” Craig Newmark discusses his commitment to journalism and philanthropic giving.

Read more: Newsonomics: Craig Newmark, journalism’s new Six Million Dollar Man » Nieman Journalism Lab

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Journalists, Battered and Groggy, Find a Renewed Sense of Mission - The New York Times

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What Are Your Rights if Border Agents Want to Search Your Phone? - The New York Times

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It’s rare that you find two historic events, back to back, in the same location.

Just 24 hours apart, the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the Women’s March on Washington brought hundreds of thousands to Washington, D.C., in support of and opposition to the incoming administration.

Working with the Newseum VR team, Boundless was able to capture, side by side in 360, the pageantry and protests of January 20 and 21.

Read more: Alongside: Inauguration | Women’s March – journalism360 – Medium

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How to pitch a 360 video to The New York Times – journalism360 – Medium

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Felony Charges for Journalists Arrested at Inauguration Protests Raise Fears for Press Freedom - The New York Times

“These felony charges are bizarre and essentially unheard of when it comes to journalists here in America who were simply doing their job,” said Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of Pen America. “They weren’t even in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were in the right place.”

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Disinformation with a Silicon Valley ethos - Columbia Journalism Review

Set aside for a moment concerns that the Russians are undermining our democracy, and let’s pause to admire their handiwork. Seen through a Silicon Valley optic, they are remarkable media innovators.

They’ve disrupted the tech sector so thoroughly that even Facebook and Google are scrambling. You can picture the approving nods they would get in West Coast boardrooms as they describe their return on investment, new market opportunities, and plans for global expansion.

Their accomplishments are impressive. They created new forms of expression, and tapped into audiences others overlooked. Perhaps the culture of the hackers they’ve bribed or coerced into working for them is rubbing off. Early on, the Russians understood that the information flows and consumption patterns of social media networks have a profound impact on human behavior and the formulation of judgments and beliefs, and began investigating how this might work for them.

They’ve been refining their current media models since 2008. As Facebook reached 100 million users and Barack Obama connected directly with voters via online social networks, the Russians began to update their disinformation strategies for the digital age.

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Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest | The Guardian

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Attention Federal Employees: If You See Something, Leak Something — The Intercept

If you’re a public servant in Washington, you may be worried about what your job will look like after January 20 — who you’ll be working for, what you’ll be asked to do. You might be concerned that the programs you’ve developed will be killed or misused. Or that you’ll be ordered to do things that are illegal or immoral.

You may be thinking you have no choice — or that your only alternative is to quit.

But there is another option. If you become aware of behavior that you believe is unethical, illegal, or damaging to the public interest, consider sharing your information securely with us. History shows the enormous value of government workers who discover abuses of power collaborating with journalists to expose them.

Without leaks, journalists would have never connected the Watergate scandal to President Nixon, or discovered that the Reagan White House illegally sold weapons to Iran. In the past 15 years alone, inside sources played a vital role in uncovering secret prisons, abuses at Abu Ghraib, atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq, and mass surveillance by the NSA.

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Inside The Private Chatrooms Trump Supporters Are Using To Manipulate French Voters - BuzzFeed News

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Philly Inquirer asks: Is Melania Trump the ‘first sexy first lady’?; Internet explodes

One day after millions of women marched in the name of civil rights and equality, Philadelphia’s paper of record published an article headlined: “Melania Trump: the first sexy first lady?” 

Written by longtime Inquirer fashion writer Elizabeth Wellington, the headline, which was also used in tweets promoting the article, struck many as outwardly sexist and spurred outrage across the internet.

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White House Pushes ‘Alternative Facts.’ Here Are the Real Ones. - The New York Times

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Demanding equality is a core tenet of journalism, a fundamental belief of many of its practitioners, and should no longer be sidelined. In an era when public trust in the media has hit a historic low and our work and its ethical underpinnings are questioned at every turn, America needs to get to know journalists as I know them: We are not perfect. Sometimes we are too obedient, too slow to query, too easy to distract. But we are by and large ethical and fair-minded people tasked with a job that gets harder all the time. Our identities are not a bias. Women who want equality aren’t biased. They are fair.

Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

Why journalists should be able to join the Women's March - Columbia Journalism Review

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Now you can fact-check Trump’s tweets — in the tweets themselves

Trump's not very concerned about accuracy in his tweets — so we will be.

The Washington Post “made a tool that slips a bit more context into Trump's tweets. It's still in the early stages, but our goal is to provide additional context where needed for Trump's tweets moving forward (and a few golden oldies).”

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The Right Is Building A New Media "Upside Down" To Tell Trump’s Story

Armed with its own set of facts, the right has created a parallel media universe that's risen all the way with Trump to the White House.

Welcome to the New Media Upside Down: a parallel universe (think the Upside Down from the Netflix series Stranger Things) that operates as a mirror image of its mainstream counterpart with its own “alternative facts,” audience, and interpretation of truth. The New Media Upside Down looks a lot like the media it’s trying to undermine and replace, but it’s darker in vision — and raw. If you live in the mainstream media world, the New Media Upside Down can be hard to find — the only real crossover between the two worlds is on Twitter, where its leaders lambaste mainstream news reports often with the aim of discrediting them. It’s (reasonably) young and hungry, and has risen with Trump all the way to the White House — where Steve Bannon, who helped construct this upside-down media world while running Breitbart News, now holds sway as senior counselor to the president himself.

The New Media Upside Down is hardly concentrated or uniform in its voice. It’s helmed by a number of charismatic personalities, among them “New Right” blogger, self-described sometimes troll, and self-help author Mike Cernovich; undercover journalist James O’Keefe, conspiracy theorist and radio personality Alex Jones; conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham; pro-Trump Twitter pundit Bill Mitchell; Twitter provocateur and #Pizzagate truther Jack Posobiec; and online conservative media personality Hoft. The New Media Upside Down is diffused across mostly anonymous, massive conservative Facebook pages. But it’s also a beacon for young news organizations like One America News Network (a cable channel that recently hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a talking head) and Lifezette, as well as more established fringe outlets like InfoWars, the Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, and Breitbart News.

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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press wants to reminds journalists that our legal hotline service is available if they find they need legal assistance during the events surrounding the Presidential Inauguration this week. The hotline can be reached at 800-336-4243 or [email protected]. Journalists occasionally get swept up in arrests during protests at national political events, and the Reporters Committee will be working to help them get back to gathering the news as quickly as possible. Reporters are advised that: -You should always carry a government-issued ID like a driver’s license or passport; court processing will be slowed significantly without it. -If arrested, always let the officer and any booking officer or other official know that you are a reporter, and carry some sort of identification to establish that fact. This will not mean that you will be immediately released, but police have often defended arrests of reporters and photographers by pointing out that the individual did not notify anyone of their status as a journalist. -Many misdemeanors in D.C. are handled through a “post-and-forfeiture” system, where the arrestee forfeits money to resolve charges immediately. Regardless of the name, these charges can be disputed in court later, and the payment is not considered a conviction or admission of the crime. Journalists should carry $100 in cash for such payments. -Inauguration Day is a holiday for the courts, so an arrest on a more serious charge might lead to detention until Saturday, when the courts reopen for arraignments. -Arrests will probably be handled by D.C. Police, but if you are arrested by U.S. Park Police or U.S. Secret Service, you may be held elsewhere and brought to federal court. -We cannot guarantee that we can secure representation for reporters, so arrestees who are offered assistance from the public defender’s office or through services provided by groups such as the National Lawyers Guild should use those services if they’re facing an arraignment. -If you are trying to find information about another journalist who has been arrested, you can contact the National Lawyers Guild hotline at [phone]. The NLG will have a volunteer staff of observers at events, protests, courts and police stations where arrests are likely. Their service is primarily meant for protesters and activists, but they will work with anyone arrested while exercising First Amendment rights.

Reporters Committee reminds journalists of legal assistance hotline during inaugural events | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

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Ethics in the News - Fake News and Facts in the Post-Truth Era

The so-called post-truth era appears be to challenge a fundamental cornerstone of ethical journalism. Fact matter for democracy.